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In this concise survey, Helen Meller aims to explore the interaction of the social and physical environment of cities. All modern societies have experienced mass urbanisation, and have been subject to the economic, social and technological forces which have produced this urbanisation. Yet all towns and cities are not the same. The author points out that historical and cultural factors have played, and are still playing, an important part in shaping responses to these forces. This becomes even more clearly evident when the urban environment becomes subject to planning. Urban regeneration has facilitated not just an improvement in the physical environment of cities but in their economic and social fortunes as well. This study is an accessible analysis of the way in which social, cultural and physical factors have created the quality of life in British cities over the past two centuries.

Concise study of 'mass urbanisation', the interaction of the social and physical environment of cities, and urban regeneration

Clear chronological framework

Extensive, annotated bibliography to enable readers to explore the subject more fully

This work will benefit students in other social science disciplines, in addition to history departments, who have interests in cities but often lack historical understanding

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Date Published: August 1997

format: Hardback

isbn: 9780521572279

length: 152pages

dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10 mm

weight: 0.33kg

contains: 1 table

availability: Available

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Understanding cities: the impact of mass urbanisation 3. Ideals and experiments in modern urban living, 1860–1914 4. Town planning in a free society: the inter war period 5. The golden age of planning: 'Building the better Britain', 1942–65 6. Crisis of identity for cities and town planners, 1965–79 7. Thatcherism and cities: the new context for planners 8. Economic imperatives and urban regeneration: a new culture of cities? Appendix Bibliography.

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